Denise Wagoner

Denise Wagoner

Denise Wagoner

In October 1869, workers were digging a well behind a barn belonging to William “Stub” Newell in the town of Cardiff, New York, south of Syracuse.

A shovel or pickaxe hit something solid. Expecting to find a rock that needed lifting the workers instead uncovered a huge human figure, more than 10 feet tall and with similar gigantic dimensions in all its features.

Writing in the November/December 2005 issue of Archaeology (“When Giants Roamed the Earth”) Mark Rose records that one of the diggers “uttered the immortal words, ‘I declare, some old Indian has been buried here!’ ”